HOUSE PANEL SUBPOENAED IN TRADING PROBE: Prosecutors are gathering evidence for a grand-jury probe into whether congressional staff helped tip Wall Street traders to a change in health-care policy, indicating the long-running investigation has entered a more serious phase. Public documents show federal law-enforcement officials and the Securities and Exchange Commission are seeking records and other evidence from the House Ways and Means Committee and a top congressional health-care aide, Brian Sutter.

The subpoenas are related to criminal and civil investigations examining whether anyone in the government illegally passed along nonpublic information about the health policy that ended up in the hands of traders. That probe was sparked by a 2013 Wall Street Journal report detailing how health-insurance stocks jumped moments before the government announced news favorable to those companies relating to Medicare payments. Brody Mullins and Andrew Ackerman report.

WSJ STORIES YOU SHOULDN’T MISSU.S. SIGNALS IRAQ’S MALIKI SHOULD GO:The Obama administration is signaling that it wants a new government in Iraq without Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, convinced the Shiite leader will be unable to reconcile with the nation’s Sunni minority and stabilize a volatile political landscape. The new government, officials say, would include the country’s Sunni and Kurdish communities and could help to stem Sunni support for the al Qaeda offshoot, ISIS. Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee report.

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PREMIUMS RISE AT BIG INSURERS: Hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide who bought insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act will face a choice this fall: swallow higher premiums to stay in their plan, or save money by switching. That’s the picture emerging from proposed 2015 insurance rates in the 10 states that have completed their filings. The largest health plan in all but one of the states is proposing to increase premiums between 8.5% and 22.8% for next year. Louise Radnofsky reports.

REDSKINS TRADEMARK CANCELED:The Patent & Trademark Office has withdrawn trademark protection for the Washington Redskins because it said the nickname is an insult to Native Americans, threatening millions of dollars the team and the National Football League make from merchandise and sponsorships. The decision, while it doesn’t require the team to change its name, could dent the sport’s lucrative licensing business and make it harder to defend against counterfeit products. Jacob Gershman, Ashby Jones and Kevin Clark report.

–SUPREME COURT:The court will release opinions. With less than two weeks before the end of the court’s term, 14 cases are left involving such issues as the privacy of cellphone data, religious exemptions from the Affordable Care Act, and the president’s recess-appointment power.

WHAT WE’RE READING AROUND THE WEBByron York, writing in the Washington Examiner, says those who pushed for the U.S. to invade Iraq in the first place have a right to comment on the situation there now, but he has one suggestion for them: “They don’t have to remain silent, don’t have to go into hiding, but their arguments would have far greater force if they noted that their own actions and earlier advocacy helped create the current mess.”

In an interview before he was captured this week by U..S. Special Forces, Abu Khattala, the man accused of leading the attack on the American mission in Benghazi, denies he was the organizer of the mission and asserts it “grew out of a protest against a movie produced in the United States that lampooned Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, rather than being a planned action by militants,” writes Mary Fitzgerald in the New Yorker.

In the WSJ’s Think Tank, Peter Brown notes that a new survey by his Quinnipiac poll shows a strange twist in the Iowa Senate race: Republican Joni Ernst leads among men, while her male opponent, Democrat Bruce Braley, leads among women.

TWEET OF THE DAY@Theismann7: On the Redskin name. I was proud to wear the uniform & always will b. It is Mr. Syder’s choice if it stays. 80yr tradition #HTTR

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